Dakota Fanning is a Busy Bee

Young actress Dakota Fanning heads to the Today Show taping with co-stars Jennifer Hudson and Queen Latifah as they promote their upcoming film, The Secret Life of Bees in New York City on Monday.

The film, set to release in theaters on October 17th, is the moving tale of Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen (Jennifer Hudson), her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother’s past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping, honey and the Black Madonna.